Full Description
A timeless work by one of the UK's leading commentators and now with pointers to key developments in penal politics of the last 20 years. This first paperback version contains a wide-ranging analysis of the topic from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, including: the impact on punishments of power struggles, wealth, superstition, class distinctions, populist ideas, the centrality for many years of the death penalty, modern-day ideas of rehabilitation but above all the underlying threads of social control, law and order and political signals about crime.
Contents
About the author; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Anglo-Saxon England; 2. Saxon Dooms - Our Early Laws; 3. New Ventures in the Criminal Law; 4. Royal Power; 5. The Commonwealth; 6. The Restoration; 7. Glorious Revolution to Repression; 8. Towards a Modern Society; 9. Century of Reform; 10. Criminal Incapacity; 11. A Century of Improvement; 12. The Politics of Punishment. Bibliography. Index.
